#convivial tools

[solarpunkshoppe]

Solarpunk, not as in glass and solar panels, but as in less consumption (energy included), more ceramics, textiles, community, and crafts. Appropriate technology over constant "innovation and progress". As in convivial tools and living. Diversity not just in our biome, but in our architecture and tools as well.

Don't let the AI slop images fool ya, solarpunk is more than an aesthetic. That's what it's been from the start: imagining the better world we can make and then doing it.

[uni-tierra-califas]

[charterofthegenome-blog]

Lord Byron, defender of textile workers and primary care physicians

Before there was Justin Bieber, or for those of us in Asia, any one the boys of a K-pop band, there was Lord Byron. To many of the women of the early 1800’s (as well as more than a few men), he was…

19th century textile workers and today’s primary care physicians, the differences are not very great.

[tonyhall]

Convivial Tools  Ivan Illich quotes

Tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by anybody, as often or as seldom as desired, for the accomplishment of a purpose chosen by the user.  Convivial tools are those which give each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision.   With cheap paper and pencil, and later with the typewriter and modern copying devices, a set of new techniques had in principle opened the era of nonprofessional, truly convivial, communication by record.  The tape recorder and camera added new media to fully interactive communication.  At its best the library is the prototype of a convivial tool.  The crisis I have described confronts people with a choice between convivial tools and being crushed by machines.